disgraceful

3 definitions found

disgraceful - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Disgraceful \Dis*grace"ful\, a.
     Bringing disgrace; causing shame; shameful; dishonorable;
     unbecoming; as, profaneness is disgraceful to a man. --
     Dis*grace"ful*ly, adv. -- Dis*grace"ful*ness, n.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The Senate have cast you forth disgracefully. --B.
                                                    Jonson.
     [1913 Webster]

disgraceful - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  disgraceful
      adj 1: giving offense to moral sensibilities and injurious to
             reputation; "scandalous behavior"; "the wicked rascally
             shameful conduct of the bankrupt"- Thackeray; "the most
             shocking book of its time" [syn: disgraceful,
             scandalous, shameful, shocking]
      2: (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace
         or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a
         destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an
         ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious
         monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice"
         [syn: black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious,
         opprobrious, shameful]

disgraceful - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  108 Moby Thesaurus words for "disgraceful":
     aberrant, abnormal, abominable, arrant, atrocious, bad, base,
     beneath one, black, blamable, blameworthy, cheap, contemptible,
     corrupt, criminal, damnable, dark, debased, debasing, degraded,
     degrading, delinquent, demeaning, deplorable, despicable, deviant,
     discreditable, dishonorable, disreputable, embarrassing, evil,
     execrable, flagitious, flagrant, foul, gutter, hardly the thing,
     heinous, humiliating, humiliative, ignominious, illegal, improper,
     inappropriate, incorrect, indecent, indecorous, infamous,
     infra dig, infra indignitatem, inglorious, iniquitous, knavish,
     lascivious, lewd, low, mean, monstrous, naughty, nefarious,
     not done, not the thing, notorious, objectionable, off-base,
     off-color, opprobrious, out-of-line, outrageous, peccant, pitiful,
     rank, reprehensible, reprobate, rude, sacrilegious, sad,
     scandalous, shabby, shady, shameful, shameless, shocking, shoddy,
     sinful, sorry, terrible, too bad, unbecoming, undue, unfit,
     unfitting, unforgivable, unlawful, unpardonable, unrespectable,
     unrighteous, unseemly, unspeakable, unsuitable, unworthy,
     unworthy of one, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrong,
     wrongful